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FROM SATURDAY, JANUARY SEVENTH, UNTIL THE MORNING OF
THE DAY OF SALE, INCLUSIVE
THE
VALUABLE PAINTINGS
COLLECTED BY THE LATE
DR. LESLIE D. WARD
OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY
EXECUTORS' UNRESTRICTED PUBLIC SALE
AT MENDELSSOHN HALL
FORTIETH STREET, EAST OF BROADWAY
ON FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 13th, 1911
BEGINNING AT 8.15 O'CLOCK
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DE LUXE ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE
OF THE
Valuable Paintings
BY
"THE MEN OF 1830," THEIR CONTEMPORARIES
AND MODERN DUTCH MASTERS
FORMING THE PRIVATE COLLECTION OF THE LATE
Dr. Leslie D. Ward
OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY
TO BE SOLD AT UNRESTRICTED PUBLIC SALE BY ORDER
OF EDGAR B. WARD, JACOB E. WARD AND THE FIDELITY TRUST COMPANY
OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, EXECUTORS
AT MENDELSSOHN HALL
FORTIETH STREET, EAST OF BROADWAY, NEW YORK
ON THE EVENING HEREIN STATED
THE SALE WILL BE CONDUCTED BY
MR. THOMAS E. KIRBY, OF
THE AMERICAN ART ASSOCIATION, MANAGERS
NEW YORK
1911
ARRANGED BY
MR. THOMAS E. KIRBY
DESCRIPTIONS BY
MR. CHARLES H. CAFFIN
PHOTOGRAVURES BY
A. W. ELSON & CO., BOSTON
PRINTING AND BINDING BY
THE LENT & GRAFF CO., NEW YORK
COPYRIGHT, 1910, BY
THE AMERICAN ART ASSOCIATION
CONDITIONS OF SALE
1. The highest Bidder to be the Buyer, and if any dispute arises between
two or more Bidders, the Lot so in dispute shall be immediately put up again
and re-sold.
2. The Auctioneer reserves the right to reject any bid which is merely
a nominal or fractional advance, and therefore, in his judgment, likely to affect
the Sale injuriously.
3. The Purchasers to give their names and addresses, and to pay down
a cash deposit, or the whole of the Purchase-money, if required, in default of
which the Lot or Lots so purchased to be immediately put up again and re-
sold.
4>. The Lots to be taken away at the Buyer's Expense and Risk within
twenty-four hours from the conclusion of the Sale, unless otherwise specified
by the Auctioneer or Managers previous to or at the time of Sale, and the
remainder of the Purchase-money to be absolutely paid, or otherwise settled
for to the satisfaction of the Auctioneer, on or before delivery; in default of
which the undersigned will not hold themselves responsible if the lots be lost,
stolen, damaged, or destroyed, but they will be left at the sole risk of the
purchaser.
5. While the undersigned will not hold themselves responsible for the
correctness of the description, genuineness, or authenticity of, or any fault
or defect in, any Lot, and make no Warranty whatever, they will, upon re-
ceiving previous to date of Sale trustworthy expert opinion in writing that
any Painting or other Work of Art is not what it is represented to be, use
every effort on their part to furnish proof to the contrary; failing in which,
the object or objects in question will be sold subject to the declaration of
the aforesaid expert, he being liable to the Owner or Owners thereof for
damage or injury occasioned thereby.
6. To prevent inaccuracy in delivery, and inconvenience in the settle-
ment of the Purchases, no Lot can, on any account, be removed during the Sale.
7. Upon failure to comply with the above conditions, the money de-
posited in part payment shall be forfeited; all Lots uncleared within one day
from conclusion of Sale (unless otherwise specified as above) shall be re-sold
by public or private sale, without further notice, and the deficiency (if any)
attending such re-sale shall be made good by the defaulter at this Sale, together
with all charges attending the same. This Condition is without prejudice to
the right of the Auctioneer to enforce the contract made at this Sale, without
such re-sale, if he thinks fit.
8. The Undersigned are in no manner connected with the business of the
cartage or packing and shipping of purchases, and although they will afford
to purchasers every facility for employing careful carriers and packers, they
will not hold themselves responsible for the acts and charges of the parties
engaged for such services.
The AMERICAN ART ASSOCIATION, Managers.
THOMAS E. KIRBY, Auctioneer.
WATER COLORS AND PASTELS
SALE AT MENDELSSOHN HALL
Fortieth Street, East of Broadway
ON FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 13th, 1911
BEGINNING PROMPTLY AT 8.15 O' CLOCK
No. 1
DANIEL HERNANDEZ
SPANISH
Contemporary
WAITING
Height, 14 inches; Width, 10 inches.
WATER COLOR
A girl in Watteau costume, seated on a low wall, faces us. Her skirt
is of pearl and crimson striped satin, with greenish -white panniers, and her
yellow bodice is laced over a white chemisette.
Signed at the lower left : Daniel Hernandez, Paris.
No. 2
JEAN BAPTISTE EDOUARD DETAILLE
FRENCH
(1848- ) jp r~£
A SOLDIER OF THE GUARD
Height, 13/^ inches ; Width, 8% inches.
water color
His uniform comprises a black busby, a slaty-blue tunic, a rose-colored
jacket slung from the shoulders, and white breeches. He rests the butt
of his musket on the ground.
Signed and dated at the lower left : Edouard Detaille, 1899.
No. 3
A. B. FROST
AMERICAN
(1851- )
A FRIENDLY DRINK
Height, 19 inches ; Width, 18 inches.
WATER COLOR
A man with a comforter around his neck has called and is joining his
host in a drink of rye. The two stand facing each other in front of a
mahogany sideboard. A rag carpet covers the floor.
Signed at the lower left : A. B. Frost.
No. 4
CHARLES OLIVIER DE PENNE
FRENCH
(1831-1897)
FOX HOUNDS AND BLOOD HOUNDS
Height, 22/4 inches ; Width, 16 inches.
WATER COLOR
Beneath a tree trunk, on which hang a huntsman's coat and horn, are two
blood hounds and two white, black and tawny hounds, coupled.
Signed at the lower left : C. O. de Penne.
No. 5
CHARLES OLIVIER DE PENNE
FRENCH
(1831-1897)
FRENCH HOUNDS
Height, 22/4 inches ; Width, 16 inches.
WATER COLOR
(Companion to the preceding)
In front of a shriveled bush, at the foot of a tree stem, stand five hounds,
white, with orange-tawny ears and chaps. Snow covers the ground.
Signed at the lower left : CO. de Penne.
No. 6
GASTON LA TOUCHE
FRENCH
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Contemporary
THWARTED
Height, 31 inches ; Width, 18/4 inches,
PASTEL
A young man has his arm round the waist of a girl and is attempting to
kiss her. But she interposes her hand between their faces.
Signed and dated at the lower left : Gaston La Touche, '93.
No. 7
PAUL BLONDEAU
FRENCH
Contemporary
WASHERWOMEN BESIDE A LAKE IN FRANCE
Height, 24 ^6 inches ; Length, 30 inches.
WATER COLOR
The bank of the lake, stretching from the left of the foreground across the
scene, is gay with the bright costumes of washerwomen. In the immediate
front two of them are standing with their backs to the water before a sort
of table, on which one of them has been pounding the linen with a mallet.
They have paused in their work to talk to a girl in a red waist, who is
arranging some laundry on a trestle.
Signed at the lower left : Paul Blondeau, Paris.
OIL PAINTINGS
No. 8
JEHAN GEORGES VIBERT
FRENCH
(1840-1902)
A YOUNG CARDINAL
Height, Q^i inches ; Width, 5% inches.
The head and bust of a young cardinal are shown in profile, as he faces the
left. He has curly black hair and wears a velvet skull cap. The rose-
colored cape is fastened at the neck with a ribbon bow and turned back, so
that it displays a white ribbon striped with golden yellow. Beneath this is
a glimpse of violet cassock.
Signed at the lower right : J. G. Vibert.
Purchased from Arthur Tooth & Sons, 1899.
No. 9
WILLIAM HART, N. A.
AMERICAN
(1823-1894) 2** £»**
AUTUMN LANDSCAPE AND CATTLE
Height, 1^/i inches ; Length, \0}i inches.
In the background on the left spreads the yellow foliage of a clump of
oaks, luminous with the light of a greenish-blue sky. The glow envelops
a white and a dun cow which are feeding near the tree trunks, while in the
shadow that extends across the right of the foreground stand a black cow
and a red one with white face.
Signed and dated at the lower left : Wm, Hart, 1881.
No. 10
ETIENNE PROSPER BERNE-BELLECOUR
FRENCH
(1838-1910)
A SHARP SHOOTER
Height, 12^4 inches ; Width, 9 inches.
A zouave in red fez, blue jacket, red loose breeches and white gaiters,
stands in profile, facing to the right. He rests his weight on the right leg,
as he takes from the pouch at his hip a cartridge to put in the rifle which is
held parallel with his waist. Beside him is a tree stem at the foot of which
lies a bunch of creamy buff material.
Signed at the lower right : E. Berne-Bellecour.
Collection of Isaac Walker, New York, 1900.
No. 11
ALFRED STEVENS
BELGIAN
(1824-1906)
MARINE
Height, \%yi inches; Width, 9% inches.
This unusual subject by the painter of fashionable genre shows an expanse
of shoal water, bounded in the distance on the left by a grassy hill. A
fishing boat is running in with the tide, which meets the wind, so that the
water is churned and flecked with tones of cream, buff, olive and gray-
green.
Signed at the lower left : A. Stevens.
Purchased from Mess. Le Roy, Pans, 1899.
No. 12
JOHN BUNYAN BRISTOL, N. A.
AMERICAN
(1826-1909)
OLD WOODEN BRIDGE, UPPER CONNECTICUT
Height, %% inches; Length, 16 inches.
A stream extends from the left foreground diagonally back between rather
steep banks. It is crossed by a bridge, the wooden roof and sides of which
are silvery-gray, with traces of having been red. It leads to a flat meadow,
yellow with light, beyond which appears a pleasant prospect of houses
among trees. In the distance are grayish -drab hills, succeeded by a faint
blue range.
Signed at the lower right : J. B. Bristol.
Collection of William T. Evans, New York, 1900. Catalogue No. 16.
No. 13
LYELL CARR
AMERICAN
(1857- )
7
THE WHITE MILL
Height, 11 inches; Length, 14 inches.
A pond in the foreground reflects a large patch of the sky's whiteness and
farther back the white wall of a mill that stands on the water's edge. The
mill has a long pitched roof, stained dull yellow and lead-color, which shows
against a bank of olive and brownish-green foliage.
Signed at the lower left : Lyell Carr.
No. 14
EUGEN VON BLAAS
BELGIAN „
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(1843- )
IDEAL HEAD
Height, 13 inches ; Width, 9*/2 inches.
The girl's figure is turned to the front, the head being in profile, facing the
left. Chestnut hair lies in waves over her forehead and is gathered in a
knot at the crown. It is again waved at the back of the neck. She wears
a gold earring and a bit of white lace shows on her bosom.
Signed at the upper right : Eugen von Blaas.
No. 15
EUGEN VON BLAAS
BELGIAN
(1843- )
THE BRUNETTE
Height, 13 inches; Width, 9% inches.
Placed against a blue background are the head and bust of an attractive
girl. She has black hair lying in ringlets over her forehead, brown eyes
beneath black eyebrows, and red lips. Clusters of seed pearls hang from
her ears, and three strings of coral beads encircle her neck. The lace edge
of a chemise shows low down on her bosom, and her shoulders are covered
with pearly satin sleeves, striped with yellow and red.
Signed at the upper right : Eugen von Blaas.
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No. 16
£tienne prosper berne-bellecour
FRENCH
(1838-1910)
SIGHTING THE ENEMY
Height, 13^i inches; Width, 9% inches.
A French infantry officer has lowered his binoculars and is studying a map.
He holds it in his left hand, as it rests upon the timber uprights that
support the earthwork on which he is seated. His uniform consists of a
black cap and tunic, a blue sash, and blue breeches stuck into high boots.
He carries a water bottle at his waist and a sword.
Signed at the lower right : E. Berne-Bellecour.
Purchased from M. Knoedler & Co.. New York, 1903.
No. 17
FREDERIC REMINGTON, A. N. A.
AMERICAN
(1861-1909)
WAITING FOR HIS MASTER
HeiglU, \iyh inches; Length, 18/^ inches.
A mustang, whose white coat is marked with gray-blue shadows, stands
across the foreground, his head toward the right, with the reins hanging to
the ground. On his back is a blanket, striped with red, white and blue,
while from the pommel of the saddle hangs a bright yellow cloth, edged
with green.
Signed at the lower left : Frederic Remington.
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No. 18
A. SIMOSWIKY
RUSSIAN
MEDITATION
Height, 15 inches; Length, 18 inches.
A woman is reclining on a dark green bank, overlooking a lake of deep blue
water. Nude to the waist, she leans her right elbow on the ground, while
her left arm parallels the curve of her hip. Orange-chestnut hair fringes
her forehead and falls in profusion over her shoulder. A white drapery is
wrapped around her right forearm and drawn across her waist, and her
lower limbs are swathed in a rosy-purplish drapery. This is in shadow,
while the light illumines her torso and face.
Signed at the lower left : M. Simoswiky.
No. 19
HENDRIK WILLEM MESDAG
DUTCH
(1831-1902)
A SCHEVENINGEN FISHING BOAT
Height, 15 inches; Width, l\% inches.
The sky is swollen with pinkish, drab-gray clouds, churned into occasional
whiteness. A strip of cold slaty-green marks the horizon, whence the shoal
water, churned by the wind, approaches in swells, alternately white and
olive-green. On the right of the water, in the foreground, stand two men
handling a net. Farther back lies a fishing boat with a buff sail and a red
one, the latter showing the port number, "Sch. 9."
Signed at tlie lower right : H. W. Mesdag.
Purchased from Boussod, Valadon & Co., Paris, 1899.
No. 20
JEHAN GEORGES VIBERT
FRENCH
(1840-1902)
THE DISCOVERED HIDING PLACE
Height, 18/^ inches; Width, 14^ inches.
PANEL
A cardinal, with a faculty of pene-
trating observation, has either de-
tected an intrigue or discovered proof
of one that he had already suspected.
He has found a tell-tale letter, and,
after having satisfied his curiosity as
to the writer and the addressee, is
stooping to replace it in its hiding-
place. This is beneath a candelabrum,
which stands on a gilded console-table
at the left of the room. The design
of the candelabrum is a black bronze
cupid, supporting a gilded torch.
The cardinal is in full regalia, a
magnificent star decorates his left
breast and a Maltese cross is sus-
pended from an orange-colored ribbon which passes around his neck,
apartment is handsomely arranged in the style of Louis Quinze.
Signed at the lower right : J. G. Vibert.
Purchased from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1903.
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No. 21
JEAN BAPTISTE EDOUARD DETAILLE
FRENCH
(1848- )
LIGHT INFANTRY SOLDIER
Height, 18 inches ; Width, 15 inches.
The horse, a deep bay, is seen in
profile, facing the left, and the rider's
back is toward the spectator. His
uniform includes a blue cap and
tunic and crimson breeches which
are almost hidden by a bundle of
hay suspended in a net from the
pommel. The blanket and overcoat,
rolled over the front and back of
the saddle, and the saddle cloth,
are blue, faced with red. The stock
of the carbine shows over the back
of the horse and a sword hangs from
the trooper's waist.
Signed at the lower left : Edouard Detaille.
Collection qfM. Tabourier, Paris, 1882.
Purchased from Tedesco Freres, Paris, 1903.
No. 22
JEAN CHARLES MEISSONIER
FRENCH
THE ARGUMENT
Height, \%Y\ inches ; Width, \5}i inches.
This picture, by the son and pupil of
Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier, repre-
sents a scene on the porch of Meisson-
ier's house at Poissy, with portraits of
the artist and Berne-Bellecour. They
are seated with a companion at a table
which projects from the brick parapet.
All are in cavalier costume ; the one
on the left in a pale blue jacket over
full knickerbockers of greenish-blue.
On the right of the table sits one in
apricot-red and another in a suit of
drab velvet. There is a vine arbor
overhead, and beyond the wall appears
a view of the town, with a church
toward the right. The scene is per-
vaded with clear light, which brings into bright relief the gaiety of the
costumes. Meanwhile distance lends the contrast of subdued color to the
town and landscape.
Signed at the lower left : Charles Meissonier.
Purchased from Jules Oehme, New York, 1899.
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No. 23
W. J. BOOGAARD
BELGIAN
Contemporary
INTERIOR OF A STABLE
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Height, 12/^ inches; Length, 16 inches.
PANEL
A rack, filled with hay, extends along the back wall of the stable. On the
left a bright bay horse with black tail toward the spectator is feeding.
Beside him, turned three-quarters to the front, is a white horse. On the
right a light roan, with bridle on, is having his saddle either fixed or
removed by a stable man.
Sig?ied and dated at the lower right : W. J. Boogaard, 1879.
No. 24
AUGUST FREDERIC ALBRECHT SCHENCK
GERMAN
(1821-1900)
SHEEP IN SNOWSTORM
Height, \5^i inches; Length, \^Y\ inches.
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The sky is smoky with leaden-yellowish vapor. Snow is falling, and a
white shroud covers the boulders and heather on the mountain side. Strug-
gling against the snow and the wind, a flock of sheep is descending. The
shepherd, with his buff overcoat and cape blown about him, leans on his
staff, while his dog watches beside him.
Signed at the lower left : Schenck.
Purchased from Fischel, Adler & Schwartz, New York, 1899.
No. 25
ANTON MAUVE
DUTCH
(1838-1888)
AN OLD COTTAGE, OSTERBECK, HOLLAND
Height, 12/4 inches; Length, 16 inches.
PANEL
This very interesting early example, painted in bright clear coloring, shows
a low cottage extending back from the right of the foreground. The roof
is covered with pinkish-drab thatch, which toward the eaves gives way to
pink and mossy-green fluted tiles. The wall consists partly of white plaster
work, over which clusters a green vine, and partly of vertical strips of
wood. Beside it is a refuse heap on which four hens are scratching. Above
this extends a pole on which a woman is hanging some garments. Her
figure is distinguished by a dark brown headdress and a geranium-colored
tippet, seen against a mass of yellow-lighted foliage. Back of this is a
bush of darker hue, while in the farther distance appears a villa with a
mansard roof.
Signed at the lower left : A. Mauve.
Purchased from Boussod, Valadon & Co., Paris, 1899.
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No. 26
ALEXANDER H. WYANT, N. A.
AMERICAN
(1836-1892)
A GRAY DAY
Height, 16 inches ; Length, 22 inches.
The expanse of tawny grass is interrupted on the right of the foreground by
a little pool fringed with reedy grass. It reflects the light from a sky
filled with luminous creamy vapor over very pale blue. A sapling grows
beside the pool and in the middle distance is a screen of small trees, while
against the horizon lie faint gray-blue hills. Low toned and in a minor key
the landscape is impregnated with the tender melancholy in which the poetic
feeling of this artist frequently found expression.
Signed at the lower left : A. H. Wyant.
Collection of William T. Evans, New York, 1900. Catalogue No. 56.
No. 27
ALEXANDER P. GARZA
ITALIAN
Contemporary
LAUNCHING THE ROW BOAT
Height, 18 inches; Length, 2 5% inches.
In the center of the foreground a fisherman in brown trousers and gray
shirt, with his back to us, is steadying a boat which is lifted on the curve
of a breaking wave. Meanwhile a woman, standing in the stern, pushes off
from the sand with an oar. She is dressed in a white cap, amber-colored
waist and dull rose skirt. Sails dot the distance, and a bit of green-covered
cliff appears at the left.
Signed at the lower right : Alexander P. Garza.
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No. 28
JOSE MIRALLES
SPANISH
FISHER GIRLS
Height, 14 inches ; Length, 26 inches.
The tide is out and a fishing boat lies on the sand at the left. As two fisher
girls, wearing white caps and carrying baskets, approach, one of them turns
to another girl who kneels in the. act of fastening her shoe. Two figures
appear in the background, wading in the shallow water.
Signed at the lower le/i : J. Miralles.
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No. 29
J. FRANCIS MURPHY, N. A.
AMERICAN
(1853- )
SUNDOWN
Height, 16 inches; Length, 22 inches.
The sky is astir with fawn-colored clouds, ragged and scattered, showing
intervals of primrose and an orange bar across the horizon. In the middle
distance, on the left, stands a clump of brown oaks, while nearer to the
front, on the right, is another group of trees in which a maple stem with
claw-like roots shows conspicuously.
Signed and dated at the lower left : J. Francis Murphy, '86.
Collection of William T. Evans, New York, 1900. Catalogue No. 47.
No. 30
DANIEL RIDGWAY KNIGHT
AMERICAN
(1838- )
AT POISSY, "YOUR HEALTH"
Height, 21% inches; Width, 18 inches.
A young girl is standing in front of a bed of poppies, whose gray-green
crinkly leaves are interspersed with pink, purple and crimson flowers. In
the act of raising a wooden water-bottle to her lips, she turns to look
toward the front. She is dressed in a yellow cap, fawn-colored jacket, and
a pale blue skirt which is tucked up over an olive brown petticoat. Beyond
the picket-gate of the garden a meadow extends to a river.
Signed at the lower left : Ridgway Knight, Paris.
Purchased from Jules Oehme, New York, 1899.
No. 31
JULES WORMS
FRENCH
(1832- )
DEPARTURE OF A SPANISH TROOPER
Height, \lYn inches ; Length, 21 j4 inches.
In a small patio a Spanish trooper is fastening a striped scarlet-green and
yellow saddle-cloth upon his mule. He turns for a moment to speak to a
small boy at his side, who trails the butt end of a carbine on the floor. At
the foot of a short flight of stairs on the right a woman stands holding the
soldier's snuff-brown cloak. She has a rose in her black hair and wears a
pale blue fringed shawl, and a pink skirt caught up over a red petticoat.
On the left of the scene a duck appears in a doorway, and through another
door, in the rear, is a view of pink-lavender hills.
Signed at the lower right : J. Worms.
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No. 32
JEAN JACQUES HENNER
FRENCH
(1829-1905)
JEUNE FILLE LISANT
Height, 21^4 inches; Width, 15 inches.
The girl's head is seen in profile, slightly inclined toward the book which
she holds in her right hand, but the bust is turned three-quarters to the
front. The hue of the flesh is of camellia whiteness, the lips being a pale
geranium, with the features modeled in tones of olive. The golden chestnut
hair, drawn loosely down above the temples, falls in rippling waves over the
back of the neck. A drapery, low on the bosom, is indicated sketchily in
tones of rose and pink with golden-brown shadows. A cool light from the
left partly illumines the girl's hair, and bathes the whiteness of her face
and neck and bosom. These are invested with the exotic charm and evan-
escent quality so characteristic of the artist's rendering of girlish beauty.
Signed at the lower right : J.J. Henner.
Purchased from Berheimeh jeune kt fils, Paris, 1902.
No. 33
PAUL JEAN CLAYS
BELGIAN
(1819-1900)
CALM ON THE SCHELDT
Height, 10^i inches; Length, \5%. inches.
In the sheltered water of the western branch of the Scheldt, a square
rigger and a fishing boat are lying. The former has creamy-white sails,
and the latter a golden-amber mainsail and yellow jib. Among their crews
is a sprinkling of crimson caps. In front, a man is rowing a boat in which
four persons are seated. To the left lies a cluster of shipping, in which the
spars of a bark show above the brown and white sails of luggers. The dull
orange and yellow-green buildings and slate roofs of a village, with a church,
show faintly in the distance. The sky presents a fluster of clouds with
intervals of blue.
Signed at the lower left : P. J. Clays.
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No. 34
JEAN BAPTISTE CAMILLE COROT
FRENCH
(1796-1874)
LA CHAUM1ERE AUX SUREAUX, NORMANDIE
Prominent on the right of the foreground are two sturdy, straight birch
stems. The one on the left shows against a compact mass of foliage sprinkled
with the heart-shaped leaves and white and rose blossoms of a vine. The
space between the stems is occupied by the twisted limbs of an apple tree.
They are seen against the triangular roof of a farm-house, at the apex of
which is a chimney. In the shadow of the open door a person is discernible,
apparently in conversation with two women who stand just outside. To the
right of the door is the circular stone parapet of a well, over which is a wind-
lass protected by a wooden hood. Farther to the right and nearer to the
foreground a woman in a lovely blue-green gown is seated on the grass
beside a dog. The rear of the scene, on the right, presents a tangle of trees,
showing intervals of sky, blue as a robin's egg, and silted over with white
and pale dove-colored clouds.
Signed at the lower left : Corot.
Collection of Madame de Knyff, Paris.
Collection of Albert Wolff, Paris.
Collection o/"Willy Blumenthal, Paris.
Purchased from Boussod, Valadon & Co., Paris, 1903.
Described in ' L'CEuvre de Corot, " by Alfred Roabut and Moreau-N^laton. No. 2036.
CLAIEIEKE
JEAN BAPTISTE CAMILLE COROT
CATALOGUE No. 35
No. 35
JEAN BAPTISTE CAMILLE COROT
FRENCH
(1796-1874)
CLAIRLERE
Height, 16 inches; Width, 12 24 inches.
On the left of the foreground in this glade a girl is reaching up to pick
something from a bushy mass of dark olive foliage, flecked with paler green.
There is a bright yellow spot on her cap, and a glint of white shows in her
kerchief, which is worn over a dress of brownish material. To her right the
grassy foreground, starred with white flowers, is interrupted by a little pool
that reflects in tones of gray and blue the cloud-sprinkled sky. A yellow
glow illuminates the grass in the middle distance, beyond which are dull
olive-colored woods, backed by pale blue hills. The right of the foreground
is closed in with a clump of trees, about the stems of which cluster a
light green vine and another vine with red leaves. This group forms an
impressive mass of foliage that catches the light upon its top and lifts itself
in tranquil dominance against the sky. Its base is fringed with delicate
sprays of leafage.
Signed at the lower right ; Corot.
Collection of M. E. More, Paris, 1888.
Collection of M. Villard, Paris, 1903.
Purchased from Boussod, Valadon & Co., Paris, 1903.
A ROAD IN THE FOREST, VILLE D'AVRAY
JEAN BAPTISTE CAMILLE COROT
CATALOGUE No. 36
No. 36
JEAN BAPTISTE CAMILLE COROT
FRENCH
(1796-1874)
A ROAD IN THE FOREST, VILLE DAFRAY
Height, 12}i inches; Length, 16 inches.
PANEL
A green sward, forming a roadway, extends from the foreground to the
middle distance, where it dips out of sight. Here its edge is rimmed with
yellow light, which also illuminates the bushes and young trees that sur-
mount the bank on the left of the open grass. In contrast, the undergrowth
and clump of trees on the right are in cool shadow. Their dark, olive-green
mass, sprinkled with paler leaves, is cut by two slim tree-trunks. The dis-
tance is closed in with a blue-lavender wooded hill surmounted by a single
poplar which rises against a sky of egg-like whiteness that changes to a
faint bluish-gray above. On the left of the roadway, in the foreground,
a child, in purplish-drab dress, stands looking up into the face of a woman
who holds a baby. Her costume consists of a yellow cap, scarlet kerchief
and slaty iron-colored skirt, looped up over a white petticoat. The whole
is permeated with a feeling of exquisite purity and freshness.
Signed at the lower right : Corot.
Collection of M. le Due de Noibonne-Pelet, Paris, 1902.
Purchased from Boussod, Valadon & Co., Paris, 1903.
LANDSCAPE WITH RIVER
CHARLES FRANCOIS DAUBIGNY
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No. 37
CHARLES FRANCOIS DAUBIGNY
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FRENCH
(1817-1878)
LANDSCAPE WITH RIVER
Height, 9% inches; Length, 14/4 inches.
The scene in its simple picturesqueness and sweet serenity is characteristic
of French river landscape. Bordered on the right by tall, loose grass, inter-
spersed with white and rose-colored flowers, a sandy road leads back from
the foreground. It terminates on the bank of the river, whose grayish-blue
water, dappled with white and gray reflections, extends from left to right.
Toward the right lies a barge, with a red pennant flying from its masthead
and a man standing at the tiller. Hard by appears another man in a row-
boat. Extending from the left, a row of poplars borders the opposite bank.
It stops abruptly near the center, revealing on the right an irregular slope
of fields, dotted with trees and extending back to a few roofs which are
seen faintly against the horizon. Over it layers of creamy-white cloud-
tufts stretch across the pale gray-blue sky, in which five birds are flying
in a line.
Signed at the lower left : Daubigny, 1860
Collection of M . Hiemelbauer, Paris.
Purchased from Tedesco Freres, Paris, 1903
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No. 38
CHARLES FRANCOIS DAUBIGNY
FRENCH
(1817-1878)
A PACK BONKEY
Height, 6 inches ; Length, 9^4- inches.
PANEL
The donkey occupies the foreground, standing in profile with his head
toward the left. On his back is a buff-drab saddle, with front and rear
pommel, from which a pannier hangs. The latter casts a deep shadow on
his flank, in contrast with the white of the valley. The yellowish-green
meadow in which he is shown terminates in a hedge of trees. The picture
suggests the determination of the artist to prove that, when he chose to rely
upon objective vision, he could be as much at home as in his subjective
moods. If so, he has succeeded, for the naturalness with which the animal
is rendered could scarcely be surpassed.
Signed at the lower left : Daubigny.
Collection of M . Chenain, Paris.
Purchased from Tedesco Freres, Paris, 1903.
No. 39
NARCISSE VIRGILE DIAZ DE LA PEtf A
FRENCH
(1807-1876)
THE FAGOT GATHERER, FONTAINEBLEAU
Height, 6}£ inches; Length, 9 inches.
The foreground shows a pasture dotted with tufts of rushes and coarse
grass. Some distance back, toward the left, two young oaks unite their
foliage into a single mass. To the right of them, coming along a path, is
a woman carrying a fagot. She is clad in a white cap, slaty -blue waist and
bluish-gray skirt. Behind the plane in which she appears, a cool light
spreads across the meadow. The latter is bounded by two clumps of yel-
lowish-green trees, in the interval between which, beyond a low hedge,
stretches another meadow. The sky is pearly -gray, with cream and dove-
gray clouds. The little picture conveys an impression of great spaciousness
and vigorous naturalness.
Signed at the lower right: N. D.
Collection q/M. Goldschmidt, Paris.
Purchased from Tedesco Freres, Paris, 1903
A BRITTANY FARM, ISLE-ADAM
JULES DUPRE
CATALOGUE No. 40
No. 40
JULES DIJPR^
FRENCH
(1812-1889)
A BRITTANY FARM, ISLE-ADAM
Height, 18 inches ; Width, 15 inches.
Back on the left appears a high-pitched roof, covered with greenish-drab
moss and weather stains, from which rises a single red chimney. The wall
beneath it, brown-shadowed under the eaves, catches a bright light. The
farm-house is cut by a tall tree, whose gleaming white stem is interrupted
at intervals by bunches of soft, warm green foliage. Toward the top it
spreads into irregularly-twisted branches, plumed with foliage, that lift the
humbleness of the scene to a suggestion of dominant authority. To the
right of the house is a rude gate, flanked by a hedge, beyond which appear
a willow and two young oaks. In front of the hedge, on the right, lies a
cream and reddish cow, near which sits a woman, dressed in a turquoise
skirt, black waist and white cap. The sky surges in volumes of bluish-
white cloud, the light of which is reflected in a small pool in the shadowed
foreground.
Signed at the lower right : J. Dupre.
Collection ofM. Bertrand, Paris.
Purcliased from Tkdesco Freres, Paris, 1908.
CATTLE AT THE POOL
JULES DUPRE
CATALOGUE No. 41
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No. 41
JULES DUPKI?
FRENCH
(1812-1889)
CATTLE AT THE POOL
Height, Z5}i inches; Length, 32 inches.
Rising out of a mass of bushes in the center of the composition a handsome
oak spreads its white limbs, profusely clothed with golden-brown and warm
green foliage against the bright blue of a sky which at the sides is piled with
white cumuli. The hues of the foliage are reflected on the surface of a
pool which spreads to the front. A cow stands at the back of the water
drinking while two others are pausing on the left bank. Their bodies catch
the glow of the evening sun. Behind them appears a woman in a dark
shawl and white cap and skirt. The golden and brownish-greens of the
meadow on the left extend back to a small bushy tree and a bare trunk,
beyond which the vista terminates in a low-level hill that melts into the deep
greenish-blue horizon. In the middle distance on the right stands a clump
of young willows in shadow. The whole scene is bathed in the solemn tran-
quility of approaching sunset.
Signed at the lower right : Jules Dupre\
Collection of M. Cuthbertson, London.
Collection o/M. Boussod, Valadon & Co., Paris, 1903.
Purchased from Scott & Fowles Company, New York, 1903.
A WHITE AND RED OX
CONSTANT TROYON
CATALOGUE No. 42
No. 42
CONSTANT TROYON
FRENCH
(1810-1865)
A WHITE AND RED OX
Height, 18/^ inches ; Length, 21 J^ inches.
A heavily built white ox, flecked with red, stands looking away from the
spectator, its body exposed three-quarters to the front. Its huge frame,
rendered with extraordinary naturalness and vigor, is enveloped in a soft
bluish-gray shadow, the evening glow meanwhile partially illuminating
the neck, shoulder and hip, rimming the legs with light and irradiating the
plume of hair at the end of the tail. It stands on a patch of buff-brown
earth, beyond which is a stretch of yellow-green grass, bounded by a screen
of grayish-green trees. The sky is sprinkled with creamy clouds, floating
in an amber atmosphere. In the warm glow of late afternoon the meadow
is lulled to tranquility, and the shaded bulk of the animal stands out with
magnificent assertion.
Signed at the lower right : Vente Troyon.
Exhibited at the Centennial Exposition of Modern French Art, 1889.
Collection ofM. Coquelin, Paris.
Purchased from Tedesco Freres, Paris, 1903.
ARABS HUNTING IN THE DESERT
EUGENE FROMENTIN
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No. 43
EUGENE FROMENTIN
FRENCH
(1820-1876)
ARABS HUNTING IN THE DESERT
Height, 13% inches ; Length, 21 inches.
The scene represented is the halt of a hunting party. An Arab, seated
on a bay horse, holds by a leash a cream-colored and a fawn grayhound.
His shoulder and arm are bare, his body being swathed in rosy crimson,
while a white mantle is bunched upon his back. He sits on his superb
horse with an air of easy and assured dignity. Behind him an attendant,
dressed in blue, is in charge of a dun horse. To the right of this group
another Arab, wrapped in white and riding a white horse, converses with a
man on foot who holds a bay horse and a gray one. In the middle distance,
on the right, the ground rises to a slight elevation, while in the farther
distance blue mountains lie against a greenish-blue horizon. The hue of
the sky is reflected in a strip of water on the right of the foreground, the
edge of which is tufted with thin bunches of reedy growth.
Signed at the lower left : Eug. Fromkntin.
Collection of the Count Armand de Pracomtal, Paris.
Purchased from Boussod, Valadon & Co., Paris, 1903.
PASTUKE NEAR TREPORT
EMILE VAN MARCKE
CATALOGUE No. 44
No. 44
EMILE VAN MARCKE
FRENCH SCHOOL
( 1827-1,890)
PASTURE NEAR TREPORT
Height, 11 inches; Length, 16/^ inches.
In the center of the group, fronting us, stands a tawny-red cow with a
white face and chest and three white legs. To her left lies a white cow,
with her back toward the spectator but turning her head to the front. In
the middle distance of the pasture stand side by side two ponies, the
nearer one being a dun with creamy mane and tail. Over on the right of
the foreground lies a very dark brown cow, with white markings. The sky
is filled with ragged clouds, white and lavender and slaty-gray, that hang
darkest over a hill on the left, which is smitten by a gleam of pallid yellow
light. Its white is reflected in a little patch of water on the right of the
foreground. The whole scene is brisk with invigorating atmosphere in
which the greens of the pasture take on additional richness, while the
impression of robust vitality reaches its climax in the magnificent whole-
someness of the sturdy cattle.
Signed at the lower right : Em. Van Marcke.
Collection of Dr. W. Werd, Paris, who acquired the picture direct from the artist.
Purchased from Boussod, Valadon & Co., Paris, 1903.
No. 45
EUGENE FROMENTIN
FRENCH
(1820-1876)
A YOUNG ARAB— "LA HALTE"
Height, 18 inches ; Width, 13 inches.
PANEL
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The central figure is that of a hand-
some young Arab, mounted on a
brown horse whose glossy coat shows
purple in the light. The rider wears
a yellowish-white burnoose, red vest
and dark blue breeches. His bare,
bronzed arms rest on the front and
back of the saddle, as the man turns
to speak to a companion. The lat-
ter's head appears from behind the
neck of a white horse, whose rump is
toward the spectator. Some distance
back on the left, a cloaked man is
leading a gray horse. Blue mountains
show beyond, piled against a creamy
sky which becomes blue at the zenith.
Signed at the lower left : Eug. Fromentin.
Collection M. Tabourier, Paris, 1882.
Collection of Dr. Cornelius Herz, London, 1899.
Purchased from Boussod, Valadon & Co., Paris, 1903.
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No. 46
EUGENE LOUIS GABRIEL ISABEY
FRENCH
(1804-1886)
AUBERGE BE UECU BE FRANCE
Height, 14 2^ inches ; Width, 12 inches.
The background is occupied by the front of the French country inn, with
its sign on a swinging board, "L'Ecu de France." Against the shadow of
the doorway appears the elegant figure of a lady in a primrose- colored
pompadour toilette, pointing her way with a fan. She is followed by
another in white, who is mounting the entrance steps. Behind her comes a
third attired in rose, escorted by a gentleman in a costume of a deeper tone
of the same hue. Meanwhile the landlord in white apron stands on the
ground to the left of the steps. A hare and duck hang beside the inn
window, and another duck lies head downward on the ledge.
Signed at the lower right in monogram and dated, '46.
Purchased from Arthur Tooth & Sons, New York, 1893
No. 47
PAUL JEAN CLAYS
BELGIAN
(1819-1900)
LE SCHELDT, LILLO, PRES D'ANVERS
Height, 22 inches ; Width, 16^4 inches.
The scene presents the anchorage off Lillo, a fishing village that lies below
Antwerp, on the river Scheldt. Near the center ride two sailing vessels.
The decks of both are dotted with figures. In front, a little to the right, a
boat is crossing the water, rowed by a single oarsman. On the left of the
foreground is a mass of shipping, the spars of a bark appearing above the
tawny sails of fishing-smacks. Between these two groups of shipping are
visible distant houses, above which rise the roof and spire of a church. In
the distance on the right are fishing-smacks and the faint suggestion of a
tug-boat. The sky is piled high with volumes of white vapor, showing
intervals of blue.
Signed at the lower right : P. J. Clays.
Purchased from William Schaus, New York, 1899.
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No. 48
MARTIN RICO
SPANISH
(About 1850-1908)
VENICE CANAL
Height, 28 inches ; Width, 18^4 inches.
The perspective of the narrow canal is crossed halfway back by a slender
bridge of metal work. In the center, leaning over the rail, are two
boys, whom a woman in white is approaching. Near the ascent to the
bridge, on the right, stands a woman with a crimson fan. . Behind her is an
old palace, with windows pointed in the Venetian-Gothic style. On the
top of the adjoining house appears a raised gallery, protected by an awning,
while a crimson drapery, hanging over the balustrade, makes a brilliant spot
against the blue sky. A gondola is moored on the right of the foreground,
near a stone archway, and beyond the bridge lie three more gondolas, in one
of which is a man. Beyond this point the canal disappears, as it takes a
turn, the vista being closed in by a sprinkling of green leafage and the
picturesque irregularity of dwelling houses, above which rise the gable end
and turret of a church. The scene sparkles with brilliant colors under a
cloudless sky.
Signed on the brickwork near the lower right : Rico.
Imported by M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1897.
Collection o/D. W. Powers, New York, 1899. Catalogue No. 25.
BERGERIE
CHARLES EMILE JACQUE
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No. 49
CHARLES EMILE JACQUE
FRENCH
(1813-1894)
BERGERIE
Height, 19/4 inches ; Length, 30% inches.
Along the silvery greenish-drab back-wall of the barn, the left end of which
is enveloped in shadow, extends a rudely constructed rack. It is stuffed
with fodder, on which a row of sheep are feeding. The variety and natural-
ness of their attitudes is characteristic of this artist's knowledge and love of
sheep life. In front of this line three sheep stand facing a big tub of water
which occupies the foreground. They seem to be waiting, while a sheep
band a lamb are taking a drink. The fleeces of the animals are variously
silvered with light which finds its way through an unseen window high up
on the right. It also illumines the wall and turns to pale gold the straw
scattered loosely over the floor. On the left two hens are sitting, while
three more stand near the lamb, and still another appears near a low trough
toward the right of the barn.
Signed at the lower right : Ch. Jacque.
Collection of the Baron de Menasce, Paris,
Collection of Madame Girard, Paris.
Purchased from Georges Petit, Paris, 1903.
CATTLE IN THE MEADOWS
MME. MARIE DIETERLE
CATALOGUE No. 50
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No. 50
MME. MARIE DIETERLE
(DAUGHTER OF EMILE VAN MARCKE)
FRENCH
(i860- )
CATTLE IN THE MEADOWS
Height, 24 inches ; Length, 29^ inches.
A pool, fringed with rushes and flowering plants, occupies the foreground.
Standing with her forefeet in the water is a white cow, marked with black
on the ears and nose and around the eyes. She is on the alert, as if some-
thing unusual were intruding. Beside her, facing us, is a dun-red calf, with
white shaggy forehead. Its gaze also is fixed intently toward the front.
From the right another cow, reddish-brown, with white forehead, is ap-
proaching, head down, to drink. Further back, on the left, stand a dark
brown and a black cow. They are beside some willow trunks which spread
their soft green foliage in a mass that fills the left upper half of the compo-
sition. Across the meadow in the distance, on the right, where it terminates
in a hedge, overtopped with a few trees, appear other cattle. The sky is
choked with drab-white volumes of vapor, showing scanty intervals of
pale blue. The whole scene is alive with the spontaneous reality of nature.
Signed at the loner left : Marie Dieterle.
LABREUVOIR
ADOLF SCHREYER
CATALOGUE No. 51
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No. 51
ADOLF SCHREYER
GERMAN
(1828-1899)
L'ABREUVOIR
Height, 20/^ inches ; Length, 3224 inches.
The scene represents one of the watering stations in the desert. In the
center of the group, gathered about it, is an Arab, swathed in white,
seated upon a white horse whose trappings are rose-colored, while a yellow
drapery with crimson cord and tassels is suspended from the pommel of the
saddle. The horse stands facing a square stone tank, which projects
from a domed building built over the spring. It shows the marks of age,
vine growths clustering over the masonry. At the left a man on foot is
arranging a rose-colored saddle upon a gray horse whose head rests on the
back of a chestnut which is drinking. His musket and saddle-bag lie
beside the shallow water which extends across the foreground. On the right
of the composition a mounted Arab rides up toward the fountain and in the
distance appears another leading a pack-horse. The sky is a greenish-blue,
with light fleecy clouds.
Signed at tfie lower right : Ad. Schreyer.
Collection q/M. Pallier, Paris.
Purchased from Georges Petit, Paris, 1903.
DIVIDED INTEREST
ALBERT NEUHUYS
CATALOGUE No. 52
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No. 52
ALBERT NEUHUYS
DUTCH
(1844- )
DIVIDED INTEREST
Height, 22 inches ; Width, 11% inches.
In a Dutch kitchen whose white walls, stained with tones of drab, gray and
olive, are lighted from a window on the left, a young woman is seated at a
round table, reading to a child. She moves her finger along the lines of
print and is deeply engrossed in the labor of the task. Meanwhile the little
one, nestling up to her, leans forward with elbows on the table, fidgeting
its fingers and apparently little interested in the book, but with eyes fixed
on a doll which is in a tub that stands on the floor beneath the window.
The young woman wears a black cap, ashy-purple tippet and greenish-blue
skirt. The child's dress is red. One little foot in its wooden shoe rests on a
bar of the chair.
Signed at the lower right : Alb. Neuhuys.
AN OLD MAN FEEDING A CAT
JOSEF ISRAELS
CATALOGUE No. 53
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No. 53
JOSEF ISRAELS
0 DUTCH
(1824- )
AN OLD MAN FEEDING A CAT
Height, 23% inches ; Length, 28J^ inches.
Turning his back to the outside world, the light from which struggles
feebly through a small window at the left of the kitchen, sits a very old man,
whose gray hair forms a shaggy fringe above his wrinkled face. He is
filling his pipe from a metal tobacco box, meanwhile gazing down at the
floor, where a black cat is feeding out of an earthenware bowl. He is
dressed in a rough olive-brown suit, with a slaty-blue cravat. Close
behind him a rude table stands beneath the window with a pitcher on it.
The wall of the humble kitchen is time-stained with smoke. In a recess,
lined at the sides with murky tiles, is the chimney place, where a pot hangs
by a chain over a few struggling embers. The chimney shelf is hung with
a dark yellow lambrequin. A little box is fastened to the wall on the left
of the hearth. Painted in 1900.
Signed at the lower left : Josef Israels.
Purctiased from Franz Buffa & Zoenen, The Hague, 1903.
CATHEDRAL OF ST. MARK, VENICE
FRITZ THAULOW
CATALOGUE No. 54
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No. 54
FRITZ THAULOW
NORWEGIAN
(1847-1906)
CATHEDRAL OF ST. MARK, VENICE
Height, 25/^ inches ; Length, 31^ inches.
Against a deep blue sky, pricked with stars, the facade of St. Mark's looms
on the right. On the left of the picture two of the crimson flagstaffs appear,
mounted upon bases which consist of three steps. On the geometrically
designed pavement, in front of the entrance, stands a solitary man gazing at
the cathedral. Between him and it the space is animated with groups of
moving figures, extending back to the buildings which enclose the piazza
on the left.
Signed at the lower right : Fritz Thaulow.
Purchased from M. Knoedlkr & Co., New York, 1899.
No. 55
LOUIS ASTON KNIGHT
AMERICAN
(1873- )
ROLLEBOISE
Height, 25 Y\ inches ; Length, 31^4 inches.
Two peasant girls are approaching along a towing-path which stretches
back from the left of the foreground. Since one draws an empty barrow
and the other carries a basket, they may have been disposing of their
produce in the houses whose brown roofs extend along the foothills that
enclose the background. These border the river, which flows thence to the
right of the foreground, where its bank is gay with white, yellow and
lavender flowers.
Signed at the lower left : Aston Knight, Paris.
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EMILE VAN MARCKE
FRENCH SCHOOL
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(1827-1890)
A RED COW
Height, 22% inches ; Length, 33 inches.
Moving across the foreground with characteristically lumbering gait is a
fine dun-red cow, with white markings on the forehead, cheeks, ridge of the
back, belly and legs. The creature's structural bulk and the texture of her
pelt are realized with extraordinary veracity. The glow of the westerly sun
lights the top of her body and illumines the whiteness of her cheek, casting
a long shadow before her on the grass. Two other cows appear farther
back in the pasture, which extends on the left to a few trees and on the
right to a gently sloping hill. The sky is greenish-blue, graying toward
the horizon.
Signed at the lower right : Em. Van Marcke.
Collection J. de Kuyper, The Hague.
Purchased from Franz Buffa & Zoenen, The Hague, 1903.
BY THE SEA SHORE
HENRI HARPIGNIES
CATALOGUE No. 57
No. 57
HENRI HARPIGNIES
FRENCH
(1819- )
BY THE SEA SHORE
Height, 21^4 inches; Length, 39/4 inches.
A little stream, reflecting the sky's blue, threads its way through the fore-
ground between banks of rock. The farther one is shaped like a wall,
beyond which a strip of the open sea is visible, with the smoke of a steamer
on the horizon. On the left of the foreground grows a mass of grayish-
green foliage, against which appear the white stems of three trees. On the
opposite side another mass of silvery-brown leafage is intersected by tree-
trunks. The sky, blue overhead, whitens toward the horizon, where it is
streaked with lake and golden yellow. The atmosphere is laden with the
freshness of the sea.
Signed and dated at the lower left : H. Harpignies, '98.
Purchased from Arthur Tooth & Sons, 1903.
AN ARABIAN CAVALRY CHARGE
ADOLF SCHREYER
CATALOGUE No. 58
No. 58
ADOLF SCHREYER
GERMAN
(1828-1899)
AN ARABIAN CAVALRY CHARGE
Height, 23/4 inches ; Length, 38 inches.
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Three Arabs, riding abreast, are charging from the right of the scene.
The central figure, mounted on a dun horse, is in white, with a yellowish-red
and white head dress. His companion on his left, riding a dark bluish-gray
and clad in a dull rose-red cloak, carries a furled flag which bears gold and
blue devices on a red ground. While the chief's keen glance is directed
ahead of him, the standard bearer turns his bronzed and bearded face over
his left shoulder, as if expecting a flank attack. Their horses are brilliantly
caparisoned in trappings of blue and rose. Behind the three foremost horse-
men extends a long line of warriors, followed by others half obscured by
the dust. In the background undulating hills show softly against the blue
sky. The troop is advancing across a foreground scattered with stones and
scanty vegetation.
Signed at the lower right : Ad. Schreyer.
Purchased from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1899.
UNLOADING THE FISHING BOAT
HENDRIK WILLEM MESDAG
CATALOGUE No. 59
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HENDRIK WILLEM MESDAG
DUTCH
(1831- )
UNLOADING THE FISHING BOAT
Height, 27 inches ; Length, 35 inches.
In the shallow water, on the right, two carts are drawn up alongside the
slaty-drab hull of a fishing boat with pale blue gunwale. The rope of her
bow anchor trails above the water. She belongs in Scheveningen, as the
letters on her yellowish-olive sail denote. Five men appear aboard her.
One of the carts, with a white horse in the shafts, is painted blue, with red
wheels. The other, already filled with nets, is drawn by a team. In charge
of each a man stands in the water. Two more sailboats, with slackened
sails, lie farther back on the left, and three, with sails taut, dot the dis-
tance. The tide, as it runs out, heaves with smooth horizontal rise and fall,
stained with the gray and primrose and pale blue of the gusty sky. The
clouds are banked over the horizon and rise in volumes on the right, while
above the sky is streaked.
Signed at the lower right : H. W. Mesdag, 1903.
Purchased from Franz Buffa & Zoenen, The Hague, 1903.
No. 60
MLLE. ROSA BONHEUR
FRENCH
(1822-1899)
HEAD OF A DONKEY
Height, 39/4 inches; Width, 25 inches.
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A donkey with ears erect is presented
full face to the spectator. The body is
seen only as far as the chest, the main
feature being the animal's head, which
occupies almost the entire height of the
canvas. The nozzle is covered with fine
white hair and encircled by the strap of
the halter. Above this the hair is coarse
in texture and in parts matted, being of a
rich brown, passing into tan around the
eyes. The latter have an expression of
drowsy inertness, which is repeated in
the ears, notwithstanding their erectness.
The nostrils are slightly expanded, the
suggestion of their fleshiness admirably
rendered. In fact, the skill with which
all the characteristics of the head are
represented, added to its being life-size,
invests it with extraordinary naturalness.
Signed at the lower left : R. B.
No. 61
JULES ADOLPHE BRETON
FRENCH
(1827-1906)
SPRINGTIME
Height, 31% inches ; Width, 31/^ inches.
A peasant girl, facing us, bends over her hoe, as she works in a patch of
yellow-green grass in which a few daffodils are flowering. Her head is
bound with a white handkerchief that is crossed with two bands of red.
She wears a waist of lavender-pink material which leaves her arms bare to
above the elbows, and her skirt, looped up over an olive-brown petticoat, is
a deep peacock-blue. Her ankles are bare, the feet being shod with leather
shoes, strapped across the instep. While the girl's figure is sturdy and
supple, her head droops wearily over her right shoulder, and her eyebrows
are arched with an expression of fatigue. Some little way back on the right
stands a clump of young trees, one of which is sprinkled with white blos-
soms. In the distance a wood shows faintly against the pale blue of the
sky, which is silted over with grayish vapor.
Signed at the lower right : Jules Breton, 1902.
Exhibited at the Salon, Paris, 1902.
Purchased from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1903
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No. 62
MLLE. ROSA BONHEUR
FRENCH
(1822-1899)
A PERCHERON
Height, SOyi inches ; Length, 39/4 inches.
A stockily built Percheron stallion, his dark brown coat glossy with
purplish-gray lights, stands across the picture. He is fastened by the reins
of the bridle to a ring on the right of a whitish-drab wall which forms the
background. A sheaf of corn lies on the ground beneath his head.
Signed at the lower left : Rosa Bonheur.
Purchased from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1899.
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No. 63
DANIEL RIDGWAY KNIGHT
AMERICAN
(1838- )
GOSSIPS— ON THE FOOTBRIDGE
Height, 26 inches ; Length, 32 inches.
Two girls have encountered on a wooden bridge that leads from the front
across a reedy stream. One of them, who leans back to the rail with her
hands on it, is dressed in a yellowish-brown jacket and a lavender, crimson-
dotted skirt rolled up over a brownish-red petticoat. She inclines her face
with a smile toward her companion who has set down her basket and stands
with left hand resting on her hip. Her costume consists of a lavender-rose
waist, plum-gray skirt and a petticoat of silvery-red. Behind the two
figures is a mass of greenery which mingles with the silvery-gray foliage of
two willow trees growing on the edge of the opposite bank. Their reflec-
tions are mirrored in the stream, which on the left of the bridge presents a
smooth expanse of lighted surface, dyed with the tints of the sky. On each
side of the footbridge, in the foreground, is a bunch of plants with yellow
blossoms. The meadow across the water, glowing yellow in the sunshine,
extends back to a distant line of cottages and trees, beyond which are faint
lavender hills.
Signed at the lower left : Ridgway Knight, Paris.
Purchased from M. Knoedler & Co., New York.
"ON GUARD'— TIGRESS AND CUBS
JEAN LEON GEROME
CATALOGUE No. 64
No. 64
JEAN LEON GER6ME
FRENCH
(1824-1904)
"ON GUARD' —TIGRESS AND CUBS
Height, 27 % inches ; Length, 39 inches.
On the left of the sandy foreground a tigress sits erect, watching over her
two cubs as they drink from a water course. The torrent has shrunk within
its rocky bed until it is only a narrow stream, reflecting the blue of the sky
and the green of some date palms, which lift their fan-shaped plumes above
a thick undergrowth of gray-green bushes and small trees. Between the
water and the trees lies an uprooted bush. The water-course disappears at
the foot of a lavender-pink hill, scored with violet and mauve shadows in its
fissures. Beyond this and closing in the right of the composition is a
mountain of slaty-gray rock formation, bare of vegetation and precipitous.
Rising from its base in two tiers, resembling bastions, it has a suggestion
of grandeur, which increases the impression of solitude that pervades the
whole scene.
Signed at the lower right : J. L. Gkrome.
No. 65
GEORGE INNESS, JR., N. A.
AMERICAN
(1854- )
ALCESTER BRIDGE, ENGLAND
Height, 28 34 inches; Length, 36 % inches.
It has been raining and the sky, still charged with moisture, is luminous
from the glow of a rainbow, the left foot of which hovers over a meadow
on the far side of a river. Here, in the suffused yellow light, three red
cows and a white one are pricked out with sharp distinctness. The bridge
crosses the river from the right of the foreground, its abutment pierced by
seven arches. In the distance appears a glimpse of the town, with a factory
smoke stack.
Signed at the lower right : Inness, Jr., 1898.
Exhibited at the Salon, Paris, 1899.
No. 66
J. ROSSEAU
FRENCH
Contemporary
A SETTER
Height, 25/^ inches ; Length, 32 inches.
A setter is pointing across the foreground in the direction of the left.
His color is white, with liver markings on the head, throat, back and root
of the tail. The jaws are apart, exposing the quivering red tongue. He
stands in front of a mass of cool, green foliage, beyond which appears an
opening in the forest, where there is a yellow glow.
Signed at the lower left : Rosseau.
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No. 67
RAIMUNDO DE MADRAZO
SPANISH
(1841- )
LA BELLE DESCEUVREE
Height, 36% inches; Width, 25^4 inches.
A girl faces us, seated with her arms crossed on the circular top of a cafe
table. A white Pierrot cap, decorated with a band and streamer of pink
ribbon, surmounts her blond hair, which forms a fringe over her forehead.
Her neck is encircled with a blue ribbon tied in a bow, and her bosom is
displayed through the wide opening of a turquoise-bluejacket, edged with
swan's down. At her back is a lattice of green woodwork sprinkled with
leaves. On the table stand a pewter plate and a tumbler half filled
with an amber-colored fluid from which a straw projects.
Signed at the upper right : R. Madrazo.
Collection qfD. W. Powers, New York, 1899. Catalogue No. 120.
VENICE, EARLY MORNING
FELIX ZIEM
CATALOGUE No. 68
No. 68
FELIX ZIEM
FRENCH
(1821- )
VENICE, EARLY MORNING
Height, 29/^ inches ; Length, 42 inches.
The sky, pale blue at the zenith, is ashimmer toward the center with
primrose vapor that grows greener near the horizon. In the glow of the
atmosphere the pink facade of the Doge's Palace on the left is flushed
with warmth, while the carved stone- work above the cornice scintillates
like jewels. A corresponding glow and brilliance illumine the columns of
the Winged Lion and St. Theodore, the corner of the Library, and a num-
ber of gaily dressed figures grouped about some piles of fruit and vegetables
on a wharf in the foreground. Here a party of people, including two
cardinals, have landed from a gondola. The pageantry of color is bounded
on the right by a mass of shipping with golden-brown hulls and rigging,
amid which a flag and awning make two conspicuous spots of rose. The
picture is an unusual example even of Ziem's luxurious coloring, the
atmosphere being a blaze of light, while the details, so varied and animated,
coruscate in their brilliance.
Signed at the lower left : Ziem.
Purchased from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1899.
AN ARAB CHIEF AND ESCORT
ADOLF SCHREYER
CATALOGUE No. 69
No. 69
ADOLF SCHREYER
GERMAN
(1828-1899)
AN ARAB CHIEF AND ESCORT
Height, 33/4 inches ; Length, 4>5j4 inches.
A cavalcade of Arabs is on the march, their costumes and the gay trappings
of their horses making a bouquet of subdued splendor across the foreground.
Their leader rides at their head, alone, mounted on a white horse dappled
with gray, with a creamy mane and tail. It is champing at the bit and
proudly arching its near foreleg. The rider, dressed in a rose-colored cap,
primrose jacket and gray trousers, supports the stock of his musket on his
left hip. He is followed by five horsemen, one of whom carries a blue flag,
furled. Ahead of the chief, toward the left, rides a servant between a
bare-backed remount and a pack horse. While the leader's head is seen
against the blue sky, a low hill, covered with stunted bushes, forms a
background to the other figures. A few flowers sprinkle the foreground of
scanty herbage, which is interrupted by bare spots of parched earth.
Signed at the lower left : Ad. Schreyer.
Collection of Alfred Schwarzschild, Frankfurt.
Purchased from M. Goldschmidt & Co., Frankfurt, 1903.
ENTKANCE TO PASTURE
EMILE VAN MARCKE
CATALOGUE No. 70
No. 70
EMILE VAN MARCKE
FRENCH SCHOOL
(1827-1890)
ENTRANCE TO PASTURE
Height, 34/4 inches; Length, 46/4 inches.
It is the milking hour and the warm, level rays of sunlight brighten the
colors of the cows, which are trooping homeward. Driven in by the herds-
man they are slowly advancing toward a wooden bridge which spans a stream
that separates the farther pasture from the foreground. On the near side of
it, attached to a high post, is a gate which is being opened by a woman,
beside whom stands a dog. In the foreground stands a white calf, full in
the sunshine, to the left of which is a black cow standing beside a red
one with white markings lying down. A dun cow is crossing the bridge
followed by a pale yellowish-brown one, following which are the remainder
of the herd. Two trees, with sun-illumined foliage, stand at the right and
left of the bridge, and at the rear of the farther meadow is a hill luxuriantly
wooded. Above it is a stirring cluster of white clouds floating in the blue
sky. The scene is impregnated with the serenity and wholesomeness of
pastoral life.
Signed and dated at the lower left : Em. Van Marcke, '76.
Purchased from Franz Buffa & Zoenen, The Hague, 1903.
LE VIEUX SCRIBE
JOSEF ISRAELS
CATALOGUE No. 71
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No. 71
JOSEF ISRAELS
DUTCH
(1824- )
LE VIEUX SCRIBE
Height, 42/4 inches ; Length, 59/4 inches.
In a dim interior, lighted by a window on the left, through which the
sunshine struggles, coloring the glass a bluish-gray and streaking the wood-
work with orange and cream, an old rabbi sits at a table, facing us. His
left hand is spread expressively on the scroll unfolded before him, while his
right guides a quill with slow and conscientious deliberation. The high,
narrow forehead is covered with a dark-olive skull-cap ; the eyes look weak
and tired ; the nose is long and the under-lip pendulous, while the gray
beard falls low down upon his yellowish-brown gabardine. Two crutches
lean against the dull-olive tinted wall, which here projects, forming a shelf
on which rest a book and some scrolls. A glass ink well stands near his
right hand, and the other end of the scroll on which he works is held in
place by a glass weight, near which a book and two quill pens are lying. The
light illumines the old man's face and pen-hand, emphasizing the expression
of weariness in the one and the constrained feebleness of the other.
Signed at the lower left : Josef Israels, 1902.
Exhibited at the Universal Exposition, Paris, 1904, when the artist received the Great Prize.
Purchased from Boussod, Valadon & Co., Paris, 1903.
THE LITTLE PILFERERS
WILLIAM ADOLPHE BOUGUEREAU
CATALOGUE No. 72
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No. 72
WILLIAM ADOLPHE BOUGUEREAU
FRENCH
(1825-1905)
THE LITTLE PILFERERS
Height, 79 inches ; Width, 44 inches.
Instigated presumably by the older sister, a little girl has been pilfering in
an apple orchard. She is now on the top of the wall, one leg hanging down,
clinging to the arms of her sister who is helping her to descend. The child,
whose head presents a cluster of blond curls, is dressed in a fawn-colored
skirt and a greenish-blue bodice, fastened with shoulder straps over a white
chemisette. The older girl's costume consists of a black bodice, laced
behind, and a skirt, looped up so as to display its plum-red lining over a
greenish-blue petticoat. Her feet are bare, and near them lies a basket
filled with apples which are partly covered by a crimson handkerchief. Some
plants and a little bush cluster at the foot of the walk, from the top of
which, on the left, hangs a vine-spray. A profusion of leafage closes in the
background.
Signed on the right of the wall, near the top : W. Bouguereau, 1872.
Collection o/D. W. Powers, New York, 1899. Catalogue No. 271.
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American Art Association,
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LIST OF ARTISTS REPRESENTED
AND THEIR WORK
LIST OF ARTISTS REPRESENTED AND
THEIR WORKS
BERNE-BELLECOUR, Etienne Peospee
A Sharp Shooter
Sighting the Enemy
BLONDEAU, Paul
Washerwomen Beside a Lake in France
BONHEUR, Mlle. Rosa
Head of a Donkey
A Percheron
BOOGAARD, W. J.
Interior of a Stable
BOUGUEREAU, William Adolphe
The Little Pilferers
BRETON, Jules Adolphe
Springtime
BRISTOL, N. A., John Bunyan
Old Wooden Bridge, Upper Connecticut
CARR, Lyell
The White Mill
CLAYS, Paul Jean
Calm on the Scheldt
Le Scheldt, Lillo, Pres d'Anvers
COROT, Jean Baptiste Camille
La Chaumiere aux Sureaux, Normandie
Clairiere
A Road in the Forest, Ville d'Avray
DAUBIGNY, Chaeles Feancois
Landscape with River
A Pack Donkey
CATALOGUE
NUMBER
10
16
60
62
23
72
61
12
13
33
47
34
35
36
37
38
CATALOGUE
NUMBER
DE PENNE, Charles Olivier
Fox Hounds and Blood Hounds 4
French Hounds 5
DETAILLE, Jean Baptiste Edouard
A Soldier of the Guard 2
Light Infantry Soldier 21
DIAZ DE LA PENA, Narcisse Virgile
The Fagot Gatherer, Fontainebleau 39
DIETERLE, Mme. Marie
Cattle in the Meadows 50
DUPRE, Jules
A Brittany Farm, Isle-Adam 40
Cattle at the Pool 41
FROMENTIN, Eugene
Arabs Hunting in the Desert 43
A Young Arab— "La Halte" 45
FROST, A. B.
A Friendly Drink 3
GARZA, Alexander P.
Launching the Row Boat 27
GEROME, Jean Leon
"On Guard"— Tigress and Cubs 64
HARPIGNIES, Henri
By the Sea Shore 57
HART, N. A., William
Autumn Landscape and Cattle 9
HENNER, Jean Jacques
Jeune Fille Lisant 32
HERNANDEZ, Daniel
Waiting 1
INNESS, N. A., George, Jr.
Alcester Bridge, England 65
CATALOGUE
NUMBER
ISABEY, Eugene Louis Gabriel
Auberge de l'Ecu de France 46
ISRAELS, Josef
An Old Man Feeding a Cat 53
Le Vieux Scribe 71
JACQUE, Charles Emile
Bergerie 49
KNIGHT, Daniel Ridgway
At Poissy, "Your Health" 30
Gossips — On the Footbridge 63
KNIGHT, Louis Aston
Rolleboise 55
LA TOUCHE, Gaston
Thwarted 6
MADRAZO, Raimundo de
La Belle Desoeuvree 67
MAUVE, Anton
An Old Cottage, Osterbeck, Holland 25
MEISSONIER, Jean Charles
The Argument 22
MESDAG, Hendrik Willem
A Scheveningen Fishing Boat 19
Unloading the Fishing Boat 59
MIRALLES, Jose
Fisher Girls 28
MURPHY, N. A., J. Francis
Sundown 29
NEUHUYS, Albert
Divided Interest 52
REMINGTON, A. N. A., Frederic
Waiting for His Master 17
CATALOGUE
NUMBER
RICO, Martin
Venice Canal 48
ROSSEAU, J.
A Setter 66
SCHENCK, August Frederic Albrecht
Sheep in Snowstorm 24
SCHREYER, Adolf
L'Abreuvoir 51
An Arabian Cavalry Charge 58
An Arab Chief and Escort 69
SIMOSWIKY, A.
Meditation 18
STEVENS, Alfred
Marine 11
THAULOW, Fritz
Cathedral of St. Mark, Venice 54
TROYON, Constant
A White and Red Ox 42
VAN MARCKE, Emile
Pasture Near Treport 44
A Red Cow 56
Entrance to Pasture 70
VIBERT, Jehan Georges
A Young Cardinal 8
The Discovered Hiding Place 20
VON BLAAS, Eugen
Ideal Head 14
The Brunette 15
WORMS, Jules
Departure of a Spanish Trooper 31
WYANT, N. A., Alexander H.
A Gray Day 26
ZIEM, Felix
Venice, Early Morning 68
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